{"id":25881,"date":"2019-04-11T09:08:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T15:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=25881"},"modified":"2019-04-11T09:08:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T15:08:07","slug":"in-school-behavioral-health-reimbursement-clarified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=25881","title":{"rendered":"In-school behavioral health reimbursement clarified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that clarifies coverage of behavioral health services provided in a school setting passed April 11.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20144\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20144\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20144\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20144\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenKolowski_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"senkolowski_inline\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Rick Kolowski&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenKolowski_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20144\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenKolowski_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Rick Kolowski\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenKolowski_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenKolowski_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Rick Kolowski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB619, introduced by Omaha Sen. Rick Kolowski, prohibits an insurance company from denying coverage or payment for a mental health service solely because the service is delivered in a school.<\/p>\n<p>An insurer is not required to cover services otherwise excluded from a policy or to pay for services provided by an individual employed by or under contract with a school district or an educational service unit in a regular full-time or part-time position.<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed 49-0 and takes effect Jan. 1, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that clarifies coverage of behavioral health services provided in a school setting passed April 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-25881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking-commerce-and-insurance","tag-sen-rick-kolowski"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25881"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25883,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25881\/revisions\/25883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}